LETTRE DU CONSEIL PRIVÉ AU GOUVERNEUR LORD CAREAV
« 2 Nov. 4613 : Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Lord Chancellor. Lord Privy Seale^ etc.
« A Letter to Lord Carew^ Governor of Garnsey.
a The King's Majesty having out of his Christian and Princely care settled the Churches within his dominions in a uniformity of government, as halh particularly appeared in reducing Scotland to the ancient and approved custom used in the Church sirae the time of the Apostles. And fmding only that the Churches within those Lsles of Garnesey and Jersey are not yet established as were convenient for the avoiding of such distractions as often times happen between the ministers and the people to the disturbance and trouble of both parties, his purpose was to order some course for the redress of those things which are loose and unsettled there, and to reduce them to some conformity as might answer the uniformity of government in other parts of his Dominions.
« Whicli while liis Majesty had in considération , there hath been offered an occasion of late to make an overture tlierein, and that is by a pétition presented to us by his Council, in tlie name of Elias Messervie, a native of that Isle of Jersey^ who, being a Student in the University of Oxford and admitted into Holy orders, after the manner of tlie Church of England, was presented by the governor unlo a bénéfice in that Isle^ but cannot obtain the liking and approbation of the ministers of the Colloque to be admitted thereunto , unless he take upon him a calling afler the Rite received amongst them , and so relinquish that he hath attained by his ordination in England. And for as much as this and the like occasions may intime prove inconvénient and ofill conséquence, His Majesty is graciously pleased to look into the state of llie government Ecclesiaslical of both those Isles^ and to understand the establishment thereof in the some, that if anything be defeclive it may upon just and mature délibération be supplied.
« And therefore hath commanded us (as we hâve already addressed the like Letters to the Governor of Jersey) with order to acqaint your Lordship therewithal , in like manner hereby to require you^ that with ail convenient expédition you give order that the ministers of that Isle and such other persons to whom it may appertain be called together, and to let then know His Majesty's pleasure is, that they make choice of some able and sufficient persons^ as well of those that embrace the présent Ecclesiastical government as of such as dislike it, and to send them over hither, furnished as well with such reasons as they bave for the strenghtening of their part^ as also with such Letters and publick Instruments as they bave had from hence, either in the times of King Edward or Queen Elizabeth of famous memory^ or since His Majesty's coming to the Crown , to settle a Conformity according to f he government of the Church of f]ngland, or otherwise to dispense therewithal^ and to tolerate an other form , if any such to be found, that so upon knowledge of that which is past^ there may be some course ordered for the future as shall be expédient. And so, etc »
(Reproduit dans la nouvelle édition des Actes des États d'après le Begistre du Conseil privé).
No LXXIII.
